My Tinnitus Is 50% Gone Because of Nigella Sativa (Black Seed Oil)

Hello! I wouldn't share a post on a tinnitus forum unless I believed it could be of help to someone out there.

The one that has provided the most relief is Nigella Sativa, or black seed oil. I suspect my tinnitus may be related to my anxiety since a hearing specialist confirmed that my ears are fine, which was surprising to me.

In a very quiet room, I can still detect my tinnitus, but there has been a significant improvement. Previously, I could hear the ringing even over the sound of my laptop. I've been using the oil for about a week, and today, when I got out of bed, I couldn't hear the tinnitus at all.

I've been dealing with tinnitus for the past two years, and this improvement gives me hope.

 

It’s very nice to read such success stories. I’m glad that you were able to get rid of tinnitus after 2 years.

Was your tinnitus reactive?

How exactly do you take black seed oil, in what dosage, and how often? When did you realize that there was a positive effect?

Tell us more details.

 

Very nice that you found something that helped you.

But before everyone rushes to buy black seed oil, I just want to share that I tried it some years ago for a couple of months and it didn't do anything positive (or negative) for my tinnitus or hyperacusis.

 

Black seed oil has been mentioned on Tinnitus Talk before with mixed results, like with so many things mentioned. A 50% reduction in tinnitus is 6 dB. Mine can vary by far more than 6 dB from day to day, seemingly randomly.

 

Good! What works for some does not for others. Tinnitus is individual. I am going to try black seed oil, now.

 

So everybody's tinnitus is 12 dB. But you also say that yours is more or less?

 

This is going to vary from one person to the next and even at different times for a lot of people. I haven't measured mine with test equipment, but it varies a lot, easily far more than twice as loud some days as other days. The loud shower sound always masks it.

 

I don't think dB reductions work quite like normal math. I remember the Susan Shore Q&A saying a 12 dB reduction was considered a 75% reduction, but a 6 dB was 50%.

 

It's on a log scale. 3 dB means doubling pressure, but it is about 10 dB increase that makes perceived volume to double (that varies with people a bit, some say 8 dB), or 10 dB decrease to halve. But I have no idea how that applies to phantom sound.

Regardless, 50% reduction in perceived volume of the phantom sound would be huge. 75% would be phenomenal.

Why, why Dr. Shore could not move quicker... If her device helps us, it will be truly a miracle.

 

Yeah, Dr. Shore (in the Q&A) gave the 6 dB reduction as being half perceived volume, but some references give it as 10 dB. This can vary with people, but also with sounds, whether they are steady, dynamic, etc.

I feel I would need at least a 12 dB reduction for it to be significant, but that's also if the tinnitus doesn't continue increasing naturally on its own as it has been.

 

My hope is that continued use of the device can keep whacking these fusiform cells and at least keep increases at bay, if not quieten them further.

 

Truly, truly.

Please, do share how you took this!

 

Guess I'll give this a shot, too. Might as well.

I'll try to report back sometime in February.

 

I will give it a try too!

 

I'm also wondering if using the device longer daily will also make a difference since the original study was 30 minutes daily. I'm curious about all the different ways people are going to try it out.

 

The participants kept getting improvements even after the study was done, without the device. So that is amazing in itself.

 

Are there more reports on Black Seed Oil?

 

Seeing this thread bumped, I just realized I forgot to report back:

Unfortunately, Black Seed Oil didn't do anything for me.

 

It did nothing for me either, but I tried it only for 2-3 weeks so maybe not long enough.

 

How long is long enough? There has to come a point when you decide X is long enough.

There are hundreds of remedies like Black Seed Oil.

Why not try them one by one for say three months at a time? That should take you nicely to the end of your life when tinnitus is finally silenced.